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hi folks! i came tonight to try and give the freehub a service on my pro2 as im convinced its this that is causing a creak, and a few other posts/people have said chances are it is this causing it...
ive basically had the hub about a year from new, its endured between 50 to 100 miles a week (off road) over the last year every week without fail, endured the crappest of wet/muddy/soggy winters etc and ive not touched it once, i wash it as best i can....
anyways, i came today to do a simple job ie take the freehub off (bought some new pawls and springs just incase they were buggered) and got the grease out ready....pull off the QR cap on the no drive side (rotor side) no problem.....come to do the QR cap on the cassette side, and thats where it ended....
i have tried everything imaginable to get this off, and it just simply wont pop off, ive used mol grips and tightened as best i can, and with plenty of force and somebody else holding the wheel, it still wont budge, yet the non drive side one popped of with my hands 🙁
what on earth has happened? i cant budge the freehub off either, so im guessing its not going to when the QR cap is still on??
how on earth am i going to get this off? 🙁 so frustating as everyones told me its a five min job service the freehub 🙁
please help!
take the none drive side spacer off and then **** the axle with a mallet
Take it off with the freehub- attach a cassette, put the wheel on blocks (on the tyre not the rim!), stand on the tyre and then lift up on the cassette. You can put on a ton of force that way.
I normally put the cap in a vice and wobble the wheel side to side whilst pulling on the wheel.
cruzheckler - was wondering about that, surely the axle would push the whole thing off?? and even when a mallet cant reach inside i could just get a rod down the centre and whack the mallet still to get it all the way out? will the free hub just come off doing it this way? hamfisted i know, but somethings obviously seized inside 🙁
i couldnt get my free hub body off so put some 2pence pieces (2x) under the lockring and screwed the lock ring down a few turns this just lifted the body off
But I had the qr axe spacers out at the time.
This is what the Hope vids showI normally put the cap in a vice and wobble the wheel side to side whilst pulling on the wheel.
i dont have access to a vice hugh unfortunately i did that with the molgrips though, from side to side hoping it would just pop out with a different direction but to no avail 🙁
ive got it here now with me 🙂
i have hit the axle slightly and the seal and freehub has budged the freehub slightly over, looking like the seal has come away and i just about see the pawls and stuff inside - and they look, wet muddy and dirty and oily! so they defo want cleaning at worst 🙁
shall i just keep whacking and it will all come off? even now i have budged it over, it still wont pull off by molgrips or by hand, the freehub or the QR cap
whacking it like that you are shifting some of the bearings as well and might destroy them. Too late now tho
ohhh dear 🙁 so the hub may not work at all when i put back together? or you just mean the bearings may feel rough? not a massive problem at worst ill get some bearings and have 5 new ones put in....
Have a look at teh exploded diagramme on the hope site. You will be driving the drive side hub bearing out as well I think - not sure now
Protect teh end of the spindle with something as you drive it out. YOu might knacker the bearing as you are driving it out by the inner race
I had this issue, the end cap had fused to the spindle, I ended up drilling it off and replacing the end cap and spindle, cost about £25 plus the bearings iirc!
Was going through the same issue yesterday. If the cap does not easily pull out then the molegrips tend to damage it so tried drifting it out with an old tent peg from the other side. Finally clamped the now rather 'buggered' cap into a vice and pulled! Most of the cap came out leaving the small o-ring and the fused piece stuck to the spindle. Luckily had a spare but put it down to maybe too many years of ham fisted tightening of the QR......
http://www.cyclistno1.co.uk/features/maintenance/hope-pro-ii-rear-hub-service.htm
Any help? A vice is dead good to get the end caps off 🙂